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Friday, November 23

Good morning TexMessagers! Do you think Rep. Pete Sessions’ district could tilt Democratic soon?

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Rep. Pete Sessions appears on Fox News (via Yahoo News!)

Rep. Pete Sessions won District 32 for a ninth term with 58 percent of the vote, but as demographics in the district change, in the future it might not be so easy for Sessions or his Republican predecessors to win the area.

A Dallas Morning News report shows changes in the Latino population could make this a toss-up district for Republicans, even if not as early as 2014 or 2016.

The potential change is partly due to a statewide growth in the Hispanic population and might inspire hope in Texas Democrats who have become used to being flattened during election season. A similar report by the Houston Chronicle found Texas might be a swing state as early as 2020.

Don’t get too excited, Democrats. Experts say change is slow to come in a state that has been a conservative haven for years.

“The big takeaway, looking at the last couple of elections in Texas, is that things are changing demographically — and that certainly has political implications,” SMU political scientist Matthew Wilson said. “But the partisan levels of those implications aren’t rising as quickly as the Democrats had hoped for.”